Comments on: How will splashtop change the rules of the game ? http://www.stefanoforenza.com/how-will-splashtop-change-the-rules-of-the-game/ Stefano Forenza - Personal Blog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stefano Forenzahttp://www.stefanoforenza.com/how-will-splashtop-change-the-rules-of-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-30552 Stefano Forenza Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:39:55 +0000 http://www.stefanoforenza.com/?p=710#comment-30552 eMBee: thank you for your points. <blockquote>, if i can replace it, why even bother with another OS on the disk?</blockquote> I tried to to point out this in my post with "possible integration with existing linux distribution". That would be so nice to shorten the boot time. And I foresee some nice recovery-mode/safe-mode features as well. The upgrade method will depending on the motherboard manifacturer, so I guess it will be hard to find a common way for everyone. About the patents, read better, they seem software patents, to me. It's not really the OS in a BIOS to be patented, but the ability to have an OS in the bios and load the main operating system in background. That's what - I believe - lead Dell to embed an extra (ARM) processor to manage their own BIOS OS. eMBee: thank you for your points.

, if i can replace it, why even bother with another OS on the disk?

I tried to to point out this in my post with “possible integration with existing linux distribution”. That would be so nice to shorten the boot time. And I foresee some nice recovery-mode/safe-mode features as well.
The upgrade method will depending on the motherboard manifacturer, so I guess it will be hard to find a common way for everyone.

About the patents, read better, they seem software patents, to me. It’s not really the OS in a BIOS to be patented, but the ability to have an OS in the bios and load the main operating system in background.
That’s what – I believe – lead Dell to embed an extra (ARM) processor to manage their own BIOS OS.

]]> By: eMBeehttp://www.stefanoforenza.com/how-will-splashtop-change-the-rules-of-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-30551 eMBee Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:30:33 +0000 http://www.stefanoforenza.com/?p=710#comment-30551 wow, if this is really upgradable that would be cool. i could put whatever i want in there, even run my main operating system on it. really, if i can replace it, why even bother with another OS on the disk? sure extra apps will need more space, but if everything needed to boot fits then that would be golden. as for the patents, well, i see the ability to load an OS in that space as a hardware feature, so it should not affect me as a software developer. given that linux is free software OEM wil be able to make changes to the linux version that is being loaded. so i don't see a problem there either. sure, only splashtop can provide (or license) the hardware needed, but i don't see that as a big issue, that's what patents are for. greetings, eMBee. wow, if this is really upgradable that would be cool. i could put whatever i want in there, even run my main operating system on it. really, if i can replace it, why even bother with another OS on the disk? sure extra apps will need more space, but if everything needed to boot fits then that would be golden.

as for the patents, well, i see the ability to load an OS in that space as a hardware feature, so it should not affect me as a software developer. given that linux is free software OEM wil be able to make changes to the linux version that is being loaded. so i don’t see a problem there either. sure, only splashtop can provide (or license) the hardware needed, but i don’t see that as a big issue, that’s what patents are for.

greetings, eMBee.

]]> By: Boycott Novell » Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and Morehttp://www.stefanoforenza.com/how-will-splashtop-change-the-rules-of-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-30514 Boycott Novell » Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and More Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:12:52 +0000 http://www.stefanoforenza.com/?p=710#comment-30514 [...] took a look a little more closely at Splashtop. He found out that the technology may already be somewhat of a patent minefield. While a Linux based operating system riskying to become a de-facto standard on every computer may [...] [...] took a look a little more closely at Splashtop. He found out that the technology may already be somewhat of a patent minefield. While a Linux based operating system riskying to become a de-facto standard on every computer may [...]

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